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Simon Lack's new book, "The Crisis Facing Fixed Income Investors"
Simon Lack spent 23 years at JP Morgan, running North American Fixed Income Derivatives and Forward FX trading for much of that time before founding SL Advisors, a Registered Investment Advisor. His...
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Guggenheim Investment Advisors: Charles Stucke on merits of behavioral...
Charles Stucke is Chief Investment Officer of Guggenheim Investment Advisors (GIA) and the Guggenheim Alternatives Platform, managing external allocation, manager research, and the investment themes...
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Martin Estlander: Are Nordic CTAs different from their U.S. or London peers?
In 1991 Martin Estlander, a successful options market maker, launched Estlander & Partners, one of the oldest Nordic CTAs. With a team of 35, Estlander manages today $850m in three strategies:...
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Stephane Pizzo: Conflicts of interests, the hidden malaise of hedge funds
In 2006 Stephane Pizzo, previously head of research at UPB, FoF manager and family office investor, moved to Asia where he now heads Lotus Peak Capital offering research and due diligence services on...
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Mikael Stenbom, RPM: Identifying the sweet spot - how managers' corporate...
After 2008, many institutions invested into CTAs taking "the easy route" of simply investing with the largest and best known managers. But: A manager's performance is negatively affected by both AUM...
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Ex-Lehman star trader returns to Global Macro with strong performance
This new Opalesque.TV BACKSTAGE video is a fascinating portrait of Robert Page who built up Lehman Brothers Yen derivatives business from 1994 in Tokyo. He was for multiple years the most profitable or...
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Dr. Tillmann Sachs: Bringing self-learning models and adaptive algorithms to...
While researching and developing the J8 Futures Fund, Dr Tillmann Sachs, an engineer educated in Germany, Singapore and Korea, found he could easily proxy popular CTA benchmark indices by applying a...
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Louis Gargour: Profiting from Europe, the 'sweet spot' of the credit cycle
LNG Capital is a London based European credit focused asset management firm founded by Louis Gargour in 2006. LNG seeks to only invest in highly liquid credit and related instruments, a factor that...
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Key differences between the European RMBS market and US non-agency market
Judith Sciamma is the CEO and CIO of WyeTree Asset Management, a London-based structured credit boutique focusing on the Residential Mortgage Backed Securities (RMBS) market. In this Opalesque.TV...
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Swan Re targets 20% ROE using reinsurance premium float
Randy Swan is Founder of Swan Wealth Advisors, an SEC-registered RIA that has used their low-risk Defined Risk Strategy (DRS) to generate +9% annualized returns for investors since 1997. The structured...
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What is the true determining function of cost in compliance?
As asset managers become more global, it is inevitable that regulators around the world will be responsible and looking at different aspects of a management companys businesses. Correspondingly, for...
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First Trust Advisors targets retail and institutions with Liquid Alternative...
Rob Guttschow and John Gambla are Senior Portfolio Managers of the First Trust Advisors Alternatives Team. While First Trust has a wide variety of products, including over 75 ETF products available...
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Family Office Winged Foot Capital: Focus on niche, uncorrelated strategies...
In this Opalesque Institutional Investor Series interview, moderator Michael Oliver Weinberg interviews Ram Ahluwalia, CFA, Portfolio Manager at family office Winged Foot Capital. Ram Ahluwalia prefers...
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Entrepreneur launches systematic global macro hedge fund Aimed Capital
Daniel Weston was a successful teenage IT entrepreneur before launching a career in asset management, and founding his systematic global macro hedge fund, Aimed Capital, in September 2013 with his own...
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MultStrat Re: Platform concept helps asset managers raise assets as permanent...
Bob Forness is CEO of MultiStrat Re, a Bermuda based specialist in writing reinsurance and also setting up asset managers who want to sponsor their own reinsurance companies. Mr. Forness lays out the...
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Giovanni de Francisci: The "unconventional" hedge fund investor
Giovanni de Francisci is the portfolio manager of the Petschek Family office in Monaco, and in many ways an unconventional hedge fund investor. This Opalesque.TV BACKSTAGE video is a rare document on...
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Benjamin Ball: Excellence at pitching vs. Excellence at investing
Benjamin Ball Associates coaches teams and business leaders to ensure their investor presentations, their pitches and their talks get results - in short, to better pitch, present and persuade. In this...
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Justin Kendrick: Growth, performance, diversification: The greater...
Justin Kendrick has 26 year of experience in Asian markets, initially broking Asia out of London, before moving to Hong Kong and Singapore. He founded Binjai Hill in 2004 as a specialist fund manager...
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Marc de Kloe: How you can help private banks to better sell alternatives
Marc de Kloe is Head of Alternatives Investments and Funds at ABN Amro Private Banking where he is responsible for funds and alternative investments including long only, hedge funds, private equity...
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Jeroen Tielman: Platforms become the evolved seeding model
As founder of the IMQubator seeding fund, Jeroen Tielman has seen the industry change and new models develop over the last five years. On the investor side, traditional benchmarks are being replaced by...
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